Jaleh Tavakoli was born in Iran in 1982, her father fled Iran in 1986 and she remembers the Iran-Iraq war, but was then reunited with her father in 1991 in Denmark, and has since been living in Denmark. She is a liberal, humanist and a feminist, acitivist, she blogs for a Danish newspaper (jp.dk), and is also the spokesperson of the Network Free Iran in Denmark.

For those of my friends who do not understand Danish – the semi-nude pic on Facebook – and the fully nude here on the slider, and on my blog, is in solidarity with a Danish photographer and artist who had her nude-pics of ordinary women banned from an exhibition, on the streets of Copenhagen. The Danish police […]

What has Islam got to do with it? Are western countries responsible for the rise of Islamic terror? And how do we fight Islamic terrorism? If Islamists kill Jews, western infidels and also kill each other, with references to Islamic theology and in the name of God, has it still not to do with the […]